Old days networking

[Jacek Radzikowski]

RJ45 connector? What a whimsy, new-fangled gimmick

Jacek.


On Sun, 12 Mar 2023 at 15:50, Alex Fraser <beatnic at comcast.net> wrote:

> Those were the days, a parallel to Ethernet adapter circa 1993. IIRC you
> could use a floppy with drivers and a .bat file to boot into MS Dos and be
> able to use a network. If you remember folks Ethernet adapters weren't
> built into computers back then, but all had a parallel port. This was a
> particularly nice gadget to have when configuring early laptops. This was
> the desirable version of that Xircom gadget that had both kinds of
> Ethernet, remember when Ethernet was 50 ohm coax?
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